Mike Cardwell wrote: > W B Hacker wrote: > >> Going forward with a new Webmail client, we're looking at 'also' having the >> Webmail user select from a randomly-positioned graphic - one among several - >> with a mouse-click - as has been used by some of the financial services >> giants. >> Pity some of those paid less rigourous attention to the rest of their 'core' >> business (Countrywide). >> >> The html has to use a call for the graphic that is essentially 'one time' >> coded, >> whilst the back-end relates the choice - 'out of sight' - to the specific >> user >> and no other. Fortunately, our back-end for auth is PostgreSQL, so the >> flexibility is already there. > > That sounds like the "select the picture" section on the signup form for > https://www.localphone.com/register > > I don't get those things. They're meant to stop automated machines from > signing up, yet in reality all they do is make the automated machine > make on average three HTTP requests rather than one, in order to sign > up. Completely useless. >
Perhaps so in that case. Not so in others. But ... as you said. You 'don't get it'. Fortunately, on the well-engineered ones, neither do the robots... ;-) Bill -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
